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Provena Mercy offers tours of renovated rooms in Aurora

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Renovated patient rooms at Provena Mercy Medical Center in Aurora will open for public tours during a picnic from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday after an $11 million renovation project to upgrade 90 rooms and convert them from double to single occupancy.

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Renovated patient rooms at Provena Mercy Medical Center in Aurora are 218-square-foot spaces featuring flat screen TVs, private bathrooms and single-patient occupancy.

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The second batch of 90 private, renovated patient rooms at Provena Mercy Medical Center in Aurora will open for tours Saturday during a public picnic featuring health information booths, children's activities and appearances by Mrs. Illinois and Kane County Cougars mascot Ozzie the Cougar.The 218-square-foot rooms were updated during an $11 million project meant to maximize space, modernize the hospital and make patient rooms more conducive to healing. "Even as hospitals build newer, the rooms aren't this big," Provena spokeswoman Barbara Fallon said.